Top 100 Quotes About Spared
#1. I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.
Daniel Woodrell
#2. [The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.
Robert Kennedy
#3. [Nostalgic sentiments] are nothing other than the rosy illumination of a past that has been spared the shadows of the present.
Georg Simmel
#4. Each new child that's born to the Antrobuses seems to them to be sufficient reason for the whole universe's being set in motion; and each new child that dies seems to them to have been spared a whole world of sorrow, and what the end of it will be is still very much an open question.
Thornton Wilder
#5. How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
Lionel Shriver
#6. Raif spared me the embarrassment of making me wear one of his Lord of the Rings outfits.
Amanda Bonilla
#7. They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared.
James Lind
#8. Fortunate boys!' said the Controller. 'No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy - to preserve you, so as far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.'
'Ford's in his flivver,' murmured the DHC. 'All's well with the world.
Aldous Huxley
#9. She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.
Robert Jordan
#10. Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
Joyce Carol Oates
#11. There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them ... Scotland is free!
William Wallace
#13. You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. (Elizabeth Bennett)
Jane Austen
#14. But the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn't.
Khaled Hosseini
#15. Here's the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.
David Mitchell
#16. Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.
Calvin Coolidge
#17. No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies, and pregnant women - all marched to their death.
Anne Frank
#18. How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy to talk to, he treated them like men. Beauty would have troubled him, but Mrs Moore was so old and Miss Quested so plain that he was spared this anxiety.
E. M. Forster
#19. But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
Alice Walker
#20. I rubbed my left forearm and hand, the entirety of which was now covered in swirls and whorls of black ink. Even my fingers weren't spared, and a large eye was tattooed in the center of my palm. It was feline, and its slitted pupil stared right back at me.
Sarah J. Maas
#21. That proves to be most wasted which is covetously and distrustfully spared.
Matthew Henry
#22. Phisoderm, not an inch spared, not the inside of my ears and nose,
Patricia Cornwell
#23. The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.
Barbara Demick
#24. I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. This is the part of the story where we should have been caught, but we weren't. If we'd been found, and punished, I'd probably be telling a different story. A better one? I doubt that. A couple of us would have been spared some pain, but there was no escaping all of it.
Sarah Domet
#26. For crying out loud, absurd things can happen, none of us is spared." He reached out and gave her a soft pat on the back. "So screw it, lovey. Enjoy every second you've got and stop moping around." - Intomesee
Maha Erwin
#27. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#28. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar Wilde
#29. If I am spared," he always said to Constance, "I will write the book myself. If not, see that my notes are entrusted to some worthy cynic who will not be too concerned with the truth.
Shirley Jackson
#30. Asha grasped many of her own contradictions, among them that you could be proud of having spared your offspring hardship while also resenting them for having been spared.
Katherine Boo
#31. It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Jonathan Carroll
#32. God is the giver of life. And He's also the taker. If He spared your life, then He must have something left for you to do.
Jody Hedlund
#33. The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days - after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.
Viktor E. Frankl
#34. The fifth leading division of names is into relative and absolute, or let us rather say, relative and non-relative; for the word absolute is put upon much too hard duty in metaphysics, not to be willingly spared when its services can be dispensed with.
John Stuart Mill
#35. Today ... we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
Albert Schweitzer
#36. The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.
Candice Millard
#37. The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
Abraham Lincoln
#38. In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
Joseph Joubert
#39. This is the same power that I feel propelling me forward into the next phase of my life. God saved my soul and spared my life for a reason: He left me to tell my story to others and show as many people as possible the healing power of His love and forgiveness.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#40. It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.
L.M. Montgomery
#41. Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time ... It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.
Ann Coulter
#42. All who surrender will be spared ; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated .
Genghis Khan
#43. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
Germaine Greer
#44. Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out want to marry him on even days of the month, so to date we've been spared commitment.
Janet Evanovich
#45. When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
Anthony Marra
#46. ... you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young.
L.M. Montgomery
#47. When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.
Khaled Hosseini
#48. I think you will leave a lasting imprint on Ansel's heart. You spared her life, and returned her father's sword. And maybe when she makes her next move to reclaim her title, she will remember the assassin from the North and the kindness you showed her, and try to leave fewer bodies in her wake.
Sarah J. Maas
#49. All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.
Dean Koontz
#50. It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
Oscar Wilde
#51. If sacred places are spared the ravages of war ... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war ... then make all people holy.
J. Michael Straczynski
#52. It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
Havelock Ellis
#53. So the cold barracks were spared, lonely as they were, and the armories were unscathed, empty as they were, and the larders went unmolested, depleted as they were, and only the common people burned.
Mike S. Elton
#54. It was new to feel protected, and to feel that it was right to accept the protection, to surrender - right, because this peculiar sense of safety was ... not the protection of being spared from battle, but of having won it, not a protection granted to her weakness, but to her strength ...
Ayn Rand
#55. Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.
Doug Phillips
#56. A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.
Paul Simon
#57. How close you came to dying? I did." "Maybe this is why I didn't." Hancock regarded Gamache. "Are you saying you were spared to stop me from jumping over the cliff?
Louise Penny
#58. This was just one of many times God has spared me.
Jack Kelley
#60. People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.
Zhuangzi
#61. Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.
Jean Baudrillard
#62. I don't make any pretence of knowing about the existence of a Supreme Entity, neither do I make any attempt to create any friction among religions. If anything, I have spared myself no pains in my endeavor to smoothen the ongoing friction among all religions of the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#63. There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.
Saul Bellow
#64. There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts
they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
Anne Enright
#66. Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Bill Walsh
#67. Angela spared a glare for Kami, and then resumed her marathon glaring session at Jared. 'It's too weird. I'm going to call you Carl.'
Jared scowled. 'I don't want you to call me Carl.'
'That's interesting, Carl,' said Angela, cheering up.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#68. Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?
Tobias Dantzig
#69. I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#70. Both of us were spared, in body at least, by the stone walls of our different imprisonments, and altered in spirit, in ways we're still struggling to understand.
Barbara Kingsolver
#71. This is the way of love, I find; one longs so fervently for the beloved to achieve the best ends that he is spared nothing.
Mary Stewart
#72. Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
Patrick O'Brian
#73. Is there any one among you who believes he can be spared the way? Can he swindle his way past the pain of Christ? I say: Such a one deceives himself to his own detriment. He beds down on thorns and fire. No one can be spared the way of Christ, since this way leads to what is to come.
C. G. Jung
#74. Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
#75. If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch's works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.
Robin Maxwell
#76. I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.
Wade Guyton
#77. If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
Paul D. Boyer
#78. It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
Hannah More
#79. That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
Confucius
#80. There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.
Jodi Picoult
#81. If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.
George Catlin
#82. Let her be spared from anguished dreams, I found myself hoping.
Haruki Murakami
#83. My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains ... For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.
Ma Rainey
#84. I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.
Elliot Perlman
#85. We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.
Rachel Held Evans
#86. Desire and love act at cross purposes. love is a net cast on eternity, desire is a stratagem to be spared the chores of net weaving.
True to their nature, love would strive to perpetuate the desire. Desire, on the other hand, would shun love's shackles.
Zygmunt Bauman
#87. Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.
Martin Schulz
#88. This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.
Harry S. Truman
#89. Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in single file, with your hands behind your heads! Leave all weapons behind. Comply and your lives will be spared!
Christina Engela
#90. The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of sectarian competition that has torn so many nations apart, and which our separation of church and state has spared us.
David Saperstein
#91. How lucky we are, when we are spared what we think we want!
Lionel Shriver
#92. His apartment wasn't spared from his wrath as he slammed cabinets and chugged a glass of juice in the most aggressive way he could muster, because that's what his life had been reduced to; angrily drinking juice.
Marcus Atley
#93. Gorky called for the building of a monument to the young martyr, who, the writer said, had 'understood that a relative by blood may also be an enemy of the spirit, and that such a person is not to be spared'.69
Orlando Figes
#94. Had I crossed the pass
Supported by a stick,
I would have spared myself
The fall from the horse.
Matsuo Basho
#95. May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
Heber J. Grant
#96. Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been spared for another year. But at least two families will pull their shutters, lock their doors, and try to figure out how they will survive the painful weeks to come.
Suzanne Collins
#97. May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#98. I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.
R.A. Salvatore
#99. Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#100. The vast majority of the inmates, however, heard the news, pretended to be shocked and sad, but actually felt relieved because once more the exterminating angel had passed over Villete, and they had been spared.
Paulo Coelho
